Information About: African American Poetry

Description: African-American Poetry, 1746-1900: Full-text access to nearly 3,000 poems written by
African-American poets in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

African-American Poetry, 1746-1900 is an invaluable resource, not only for literary
scholars, but for researchers in black studies, linguistics, women?s studies, the
black literary heritage and comparative studies.

The poets are among those included in the William French et al. bibliography,
Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1746-1975, from such widely known figures as
Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar to those who only gained recognition
many years after their death.